Staff of the BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air
Protection flew a helicopter survey of ATV damage
in low elevation wetlands
on September
29,
2004.
A total
of 24 wet meadows were selected at random from the many
hundreds of low elevation wetlands in our region.
The area covered was bounded by Houston to the
west,
Chapman
Lake
to
the north, Maxan Lake to the east and Ootsa Lake to the
south.
Only 46% of the
wetlands had no ATV tracks. 17% had one or two tracks
and 37% had multiple braided ATV tracks. There was no incidence
of "donuts" or "tundra trashing".
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